# 4 - Arrival in Sado
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**[00:04] keiji**
What a horrible thing to happen.
**[00:06] kane**
Indeed.
**[00:07] kane**
Around that time, Hideyoshi's
former enemy, Sassa Narimasa,
**[00:10] kane**
was sent to lead
the Kyushu government,
**[00:13] kane**
sending him to Higo from Etchu.
**[00:16] keiji**
It appeared to be a joyous event,
**[00:19] keiji**
but Higo was in turmoil.
**[00:22] keiji**
Narimasa was met with
opposition from the citizens,
**[00:25] keiji**
and couldn't contain the revolts.
**[00:27] kane**
Sassa Narimasa had to commit
seppuku because of misrule.
**[00:32] kane**
His family collapsed.
**[00:34] kane**
But Hideyoshi had foreseen all of this
**[00:36] kane**
and was the one who
set up this ingenious trap.
**[00:39] kane**
And that same trap has now
been set for us, the Uesugi clan.
**[00:43] hide**
* Do you not want Sado,*
* Uesugi-dono?*
**[00:51] kane**
Since he had not been able
to stop the civil war in Sado,
**[00:56] kane**
there was nothing
he could say in return.
**[00:58] kane**
Despite knowing this was a trap
**[01:00] kane**
that Hideyoshi had set
in order to obtain Echigo,
**[01:02] kane**
we headed into Sado to conquer it.
**[01:06] kane**
And that was when...
**[01:13] keiji**
It's obvious that my conniving uncle
is involved in this matter.
**[01:19] kane**
But this battle
**[01:21] kane**
is like sticking your head
into the tiger's den...
**[01:26] keiji**
It's because you are battling a tiger
**[01:29] keiji**
that I have come to help.
**[01:32] keiji**
That is my righteousness!
**[01:35] kane**
That's what you said, wasn't it?
**[01:41] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[01:47] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[01:51] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Arrival in Sado
**[03:19] man**
I have to hurry! At this rate,
**[03:21] man**
all of our efforts
will have been for nothing!
**[03:30] lady**
Pardon me.
**[03:32] lady**
If you'd like, I shall say
a Buddhist chant for you.
**[03:36] man**
Shut up! I don't have time for—
**[03:44] man**
You bitch...
**[03:54] jiro**
I'm sorry! I didn't make it in time.
**[03:57] lady**
W-We have to tell them...
**[04:02] lady**
That land is...
**[04:08] jiro**
Th-That's...
**[04:11] hide**
Sado!
**[04:16] toshi**
I see...
**[04:21] hide**
The Kawarada-Honma
clan of northern Sado,
**[04:25] hide**
and the Hamochi-Honma
clan of southern Sado...
**[04:30] hide**
What a troublesome clan.
**[04:33] toshi**
Fighting over land
for the supremacy of Sado,
**[04:37] toshi**
they have no intention
of listening to Uesugi's mediation.
**[04:42] hide**
But because of that,
**[04:46] hide**
it seems that Uesugi will be bringing
**[04:49] hide**
a giant army to Sado this time.
**[04:52] toshi**
Amusingly, because of that,
the two feuding clans
**[04:57] toshi**
will join together to ensure
that no one takes Sado.
**[05:03] hide**
That is how people are.
**[05:09] nar**
June 10, 1589. Sawane Harbor.
***SIGN*** June 10, 1589, Sawane Harbor
**[05:22] keiji**
Land boldly floating
in the wide open sea...
**[05:25] keiji**
what a grand sight.
**[05:28] keiji**
On top of that,
thinking about the trap
**[05:31] keiji**
that awaits us on that island
just makes me even more excited.
**[05:36] kane**
I expect nothing less from you, Keiji-dono.
**[05:40] kane**
Behold, Kagekatsu-sama.
**[05:43] kane**
The advance army lead by
Fujita Nobuyoshi-dono is already waiting.
**[05:49] kage**
Indeed.
**[05:50] kane**
And, apparently, the stewards
of northern Sado await our arrival.
**[05:56] keiji**
Those dogs. I wonder what
they have up their sleeves.
**[06:01] kage**
Let us get them drunk
and make them talk.
**[06:08] keiji**
That would be amusing.
**[06:12] kane**
However...
**[06:13] kane**
it's not the dogs who have laid out this trap.
**[06:18] kane**
The real enemy behind this
**[06:21] kane**
is the tiger hiding behind the dogs.
**[06:29] kage**
So how shall we lure him out?
**[06:38] kane**
Fear not.
**[06:40] kane**
I have a secret plan in motion.
**[06:55] fat**
Uesugi, my ass. How annoying.
**[07:02] guy**
Reporting.
**[07:03] guy**
Uesugi's main army has landed.
**[07:10] guy**
Takatsuna-sama, will Uesugi trust us?
**[07:18] fat**
Well, just watch.
**[07:20] fat**
I'll make him trust us.
**[07:23] nar**
This man is Honma Takatsuna.
The head of the Kawarada-Honma clan,
**[07:26] nar**
which reigned over northern Sado.
***SIGN*** Honma Takatsuna
**[07:28] nar**
Honma Takatsuna
***SIGN*** Hamochi County
***SIGN*** Hamochi Castle
***SIGN*** Kawarada Castle Sawato County
**[07:31] ---**
At the time, Sado was
its own kingdom.
**[07:35] nar**
After the Jokyu War in 1221,
***SIGN*** Kamo County
**[07:38] nar**
the Honma clan that was
transferred to the island
**[07:44] nar**
had split up all across the land,
establishing their own territories,
**[07:47] nar**
and then fought over
supremacy of the land.
**[07:51] nar**
Eventually, two of the clans succeeded:
**[07:54] nar**
the northern clan of Kawarada-Honma,
who sided with Shibata Shigeie
**[07:58] nar**
and the Hamochi-Honma clan,
who put Uesugi Kagekatsu behind them,
**[08:03] nar**
thus, intensifying the fight
for supremacy of Sado.
**[08:09] nar**
Two years prior, however,
Shibata was destroyed by Uesugi,
**[08:15] nar**
and Uesugi had then tried to take over Sado.
**[08:26] kage**
Head of the Honma clan,
raise your head.
**[08:41] fat**
Greetings, my lord.
**[08:44] fat**
Welcome to Sado.
**[08:48] kage**
How goes the battle?
**[08:49] fat**
Huh? Oh, right!
**[08:52] fat**
The Hamochi of the south
refuse to listen to your mediation,
**[08:55] fat**
despite you being their lord,
Uesugi-sama.
**[08:58] fat**
They are planning to battle with us Kawarada.
**[09:03] fat**
However, Kagekatsu-sama,
we have resolved ourselves.
**[09:08] fat**
Please, please, please
**[09:11] fat**
leave the vanguard to me,
Honma Takatsuna.
**[09:15] fat**
That would be my greatest honor.
**[09:20] fat**
Please, please.
**[09:23] fat**
Vanguard, vanguard.
Smile, smile.
**[09:27] kage**
Well said.
**[09:31] fat**
Thank you! I am honored!
**[09:33] lackies**
We are honored!
**[09:39] keiji**
That dog...
**[09:40] keiji**
he has no idea that
his deception has failed.
**[09:45] kane**
Let's allow them to do
their little dance for a while.
**[10:20] mosuke**
My lord! I found it!
**[10:22] mosuke**
We can see the battlefield from up here.
**[10:32] kane**
This is splendid.
**[10:34] nar**
A river flows through the land
**[10:36] nar**
as if intentionally
splitting Sado in half.
**[10:39] nar**
The Kawarada-Honma
clan of the north
**[10:42] nar**
and the Hamochi-Honma
clan of the south
**[10:45] nar**
fought along this river.
**[10:48] nar**
But it was also the site
of a stalemate for both parties.
**[11:08] fuji**
Takatsuna-dono!
I request an audience with you!
**[11:17] fat**
Oww...
**[11:18] fat**
What the hell do you want? Jeez...
**[11:21] fuji**
What is the meaning of this,
Takatsuna-dono?
**[11:25] fat**
Meaning? Meaning of what?
**[11:27] fuji**
It is good that you have been put in charge
of the vanguard for Kagekatsu-sama
**[11:30] fuji**
and have set up camp on this land,
**[11:32] fuji**
but we've just been in a staring contest
**[11:34] fuji**
with the Hamochi army
and haven't had a single battle!
**[11:36] fuji**
What is the meaning of this?
**[11:38] fat**
You don't understand the war
of Sado, Fujita-dono.
**[11:42] fat**
We have fought repeatedly over
supremacy of Sado for years.
**[11:48] fat**
I know the enemy
like the back of my hand.
**[11:51] fuji**
If that's the case, get along with it!
**[11:52] fat**
No.
**[11:53] fat**
Both armies know the other
like the backs of their hands,
**[11:56] fat**
meaning it'd be better to not
thoughtlessly make any moves, right now.
**[12:00] fuji**
Thoughtlessly?
**[12:04] fuji**
Oh, forget it!
**[12:07] fuji**
If all else fails, I will take
the first step into battle.
**[12:11] fuji**
Do you understand,
Takatsuna-dono?
**[12:17] fat**
Uh, you really shouldn't.
**[12:24] fat**
Oh, well. Whatever, then.
**[12:29] fuji**
Charge!
**[12:35] fuji**
Look! They're so frightened
that they can't even move.
**[12:39] fuji**
We shall take care of them
in a single blow!
**[12:46] fuji**
What?
**[12:50] fuji**
Wh-What?
**[12:56] fuji**
Look out! The reeds!
**[12:58] fuji**
They're hiding in the reeds!
**[13:08] soldiers**
Now!
**[13:16] fuji**
Wh-What...
**[13:19] fuji**
Pull back! Pull back! Retreat!
**[13:21] fuji**
Retreat!
**[13:32] fat**
I told you so!
**[13:36] fat**
Isn't that right, Takasue of the South?
***SIGN*** Hamochi Castle
**[13:44] guy**
I see. It appears
that Takatsuna of the Kawarada
**[13:48] guy**
is manipulating
the Uesugi quite well.
***SIGN*** Honma Takasue
**[13:54] nar**
Honma Takasue is the lord of Hamochi Castle
**[13:58] nar**
and is the lord of the Hamochi-Honma clan
**[13:59] nar**
that governs southern Sado.
**[14:03] taka**
But to think that the Uesugi army
**[14:06] taka**
would go running
after a little attack like that.
**[14:11] taka**
It appears that the Uesugi army
has gone downhill.
**[14:17] taka**
And they thought they
could take over Sado.
**[14:20] taka**
It's true that Kenshin
had authority over us
**[14:24] taka**
but this Kagekatsu has
no right to try to govern us.
**[14:28] taka**
The Uesugi clan should
just disappear while in Sado.
**[14:43] fuji**
My apologies, Kagekatsu-sama!
**[14:50] fuji**
I led the troops without permission
and with this kind of a result...
**[14:57] kage**
It's fine.
**[14:58] fuji**
But...
**[15:00] kane**
Fujita-dono, this first battle
was not wasted.
**[15:05] kane**
Actually, we were able
to find out quite a bit.
**[15:09] fuji**
What do you mean by that, sir?
**[15:12] kane**
Please look.
**[15:13] kane**
The Hamochi army is heavily laid out,
determined not to let us cross the river.
**[15:20] fuji**
That is, indeed, a troublesome defense.
**[15:23] fuji**
But with the size
of our Uesugi army,
**[15:26] fuji**
it is possible to push them
back with just our numbers.
**[15:29] kane**
Yes, but if Takatsuna's army
were to attack us from behind...
**[15:37] fuji**
That would leave us surrounded!
**[15:39] fuji**
Does that mean the Sado armies...
**[15:41] kane**
Indeed. As long as we know that
the two are working together,
**[15:46] kane**
it's dangerous for us
to make the first move.
**[15:48] fuji**
But the Kawarada army
won't move on its own.
**[15:53] fuji**
That means a battle will never start.
**[15:56] keiji**
So what shall we do?
**[15:58] keiji**
Get them drunk and
make them talk, after all?
**[16:03] kane**
No... More importantly...
**[16:14] mosuke**
Where are you going? Jirobo?
**[16:24] keiji**
This is... Buddhist chanting.
**[16:28] mosuke**
At a place like this?
**[16:36] mosuke**
Wh-What?
**[16:54] keiji**
These women...
**[16:56] kane**
Kumano Buddhist nuns.
**[16:58] kane**
They bear the sorrows of the world
**[17:00] kane**
and have no choice
but to rely on Buddha.
**[17:07] nar**
The Kumano Buddhist nuns
were nuns who carried boxes
**[17:13] nar**
with the Kumano mandalas
that visualized Paradise and Hell,
**[17:17] nar**
making pilgrimages across the land
while interpreting the pictures.
**[17:22] nar**
And this nun was
named Seion.
***SIGN*** Sister Seion
**[17:27] nar**
She is a nun who brought
the Kumano Kanshin Jukkai Mandala to Sado
**[17:32] nar**
and eventually would be the one
to opened the red-light district in Sado.
**[17:37] mosuke**
Wow, she's gorgeous.
**[17:49] seion**
Those with Kaga dialect
have been going in and out
**[17:53] seion**
of Kawarada Castle
and Hamochi Castle.
**[17:57] jiro**
The Kaga shinobi of the Maeda clan.
**[18:00] mosuke**
Shinobi?
**[18:02] mosuke**
But how did you find that out?
**[18:04] mosuke**
Shinobi wouldn't let their
identities be known that easily...
**[18:07] keiji**
I see!
**[18:09] keiji**
So Naoe-dono's secret plan was
to make use of these women.
**[18:15] seion**
It's because we're
women that it works.
**[18:17] seion**
Men... say things quite easily
**[18:21] seion**
in bed.
**[18:25] keiji**
Point taken...
**[18:28] seion**
Naoe-sama, as you already know,
the north and the south
**[18:33] seion**
are planning to continue
this facade of a war.
**[18:36] kane**
What's the ulterior motive behind that?
**[18:38] seion**
Hideyoshi's messenger
has already left Kyoto.
**[18:43] mosuke**
Huh? What? Why would a messenger
of mediation have left
**[18:47] mosuke**
if the battle hasn't started yet...
**[18:50] kane**
That messenger will claim
the Uesugi clan is incompetent
**[18:54] kane**
for not being able to bring
Sado under control.
**[18:59] mosuke**
Sir?
**[19:00] keiji**
I see.
**[19:05] keiji**
That'd be more than
enough of an excuse
**[19:08] keiji**
for Hideyoshi to take
the Uesugi clan's land from them.
**[19:13] mosuke**
Th-That's so selfish!
**[19:15] jiro**
No, this whole battle in Sado
was to render the Uesugi clan powerless.
**[19:24] kane**
It appears that the identity
of the tiger is becoming apparent.
**[19:30] hide**
But...
**[19:33] hide**
You can't run now,
can you, Uesugi?
***SIGN*** Uesugi
**[19:43] keiji**
An island with no righteousness...
**[19:45] keiji**
so that is Sado.
**[19:47] kane**
No, that's not true.
**[19:52] keiji**
Who is the one being cremated here?
**[19:57] seion**
She was only fifteen...
**[20:00] seion**
This nun...
**[20:02] seion**
died to dispose of the Kaga
shinobi who was onto us.
**[20:10] jiro**
If only...
**[20:12] jiro**
If I was in Sado earlier,
I could have saved her life.
**[20:19] seion**
It's all right.
This is also fate.
**[20:34] kane**
This rugosa rose
was blooming on the shore.
**[20:39] kane**
Please use it as a hair accessory
for your trip into the next world.
**[21:07] seion**
Everything is for us to make
this land a safe land.
**[21:19] keiji**
Then this nun was also...
**[21:24] keiji**
a soldier.
**[21:38] keiji**
Naoe-dono...
**[21:41] keiji**
It appears we need to settle
this battle as soon as possible.
**[21:47] kane**
Because of that, we...
**[22:03] both**
...become fierce dragons!
***SIGN*** Episode 5 Attack on Sado
**[23:40] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] kane**
Episode 5
"Attack on Sado."
**[23:47] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.